6:24:33 PM: Welcome to Page 3, you made it!
6:24:57 PM: Visual Effects is next, but first… a commercial.
6:27:35 PM: Oh good, short commercial break this time.
6:27:45 PM: Carey Mulligan and Zoe Saldana are the next presenters. Young Hollywood at its finest.
6:28:12 PM: They are presenting the short film awards.
6:28:55 PM: I reviewed the live-action shorts here and the animated shorts here. The animated link has all five nominees embedded in the review.
6:30:56 PM: First off is Best Animated Short, my pick was A Matter of Loaf and Death but Logorama could surprise… or even Lady and the Reaper.
6:31:31 PM:
6:31:54 PM: Damn, my first miss, but that was a great short. 4-for-5
6:33:15 PM: Okay, and now for the documentary short, I went with The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
6:34:16 PM: Argh, another loss!
6:35:25 PM: And Documentary Short is the first to get played off stage.
6:35:41 PM: Now for Best Live Action Short… my prediction was The Door, but I loved Miracle Fish
6:36:03 PM:
6:36:26 PM: Damn, and I actually watched these things! 4-for-7
6:36:42 PM: The New Tenants wasn’t bad, but it had a rather awful ending.
6:37:37 PM: And the Live Action Short gets played off as well… Keep those speeches, ironically, short.
6:38:03 PM: Now Ben Stiller is at as a Na’vi character. Not really very funny, but sure to be the picture you see everywhere tomorrow.
6:38:40 PM: Stiller is presenting the award for Best Makeup, my pick was Star Trek
6:39:11 PM: Okay, Ben… get it moving.
6:40:44 PM:
6:41:40 PM: Back on the winning track… 5-for-8
6:43:16 PM: Jeff Bridges is out to introduce A Serious Man as a Best Picture nominee.
6:45:13 PM: Best Supporting Actress is next, but first, a toilet paper commercial.
6:45:51 PM: Mo’Nique better have her speech ready, because she’s going to be holding Oscar gold very soon.
6:47:32 PM: Rachel McAdams and Jake Gyllenhaal are out to present the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
6:48:12 PM: This is pretty much an Up in the Air lock.
6:49:56 PM:
6:50:18 PM: First major shocker of the evening!
6:50:54 PM: Gotta say, I am a happy man. I love that movie.
6:51:42 PM: Congrats to Geoffrey Fletcher, but I know a lot of you loved the Up in the Air screenplay.
6:52:18 PM: Queen Latifah is now talking about a luncheon. Yay!
6:54:20 PM: Is the Oscar race now between Precious and The Hurt Locker?
6:54:56 PM: Roger Corman and Lauren Bacall now getting a little love. Clap-a-doo.
6:55:16 PM: Robin Williams takes to the stage… what do you bet he tries too hard?
6:55:32 PM: Yup, a “ball” joke.
6:55:44 PM: Williams is presenting Best Supporting Actress as teased before the last commercial, those tricky announcer ladies.
6:56:00 PM: Mo’Nique’s time is now.
6:59:22 PM:
6:59:32 PM: Again, love that movie and happy for Mo’Nique. I now am hoping Gabby can pull off the Best Actress upset, my predictions be damned!
7:01:21 PM: Out comes Colin Firth (my personal favorite actor of 2009) to present An Education as a Best Picture nominee.
7:02:35 PM: Commercial time, and did I just hear there will be a tribute to horror films? Why yes, there will be.
7:05:28 PM: Sigourney Weaver will now present the Oscar for Best Art Direction.
7:06:07 PM: This category could go a lot of ways. Do they embrace digital work from Avatar?
7:06:34 PM:
7:07:11 PM: Okay, I’m feeling better about my pick of Avatar for Cinematography now.
7:08:39 PM: Pretty sure I am 7-for-11 now, but I can’t be sure.
7:08:54 PM: Now to present the winner for Best Costumes are Sarah Jessica Parker and (fittingly) Tom Ford, my pick is The Young Victoria
7:10:20 PM:
7:11:59 PM: Charlize Theron will now present Precious as a Best Picture nominee… a film that is looking to have a better chance to win now.
7:13:17 PM: Commercial break, but promise of Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart next! Squeeeeeee!
7:16:43 PM: We’re back… and that’s all I have for the second…
7:17:19 PM: The tribute to horror is next with a Martin and Baldwin spoof of Paranormal Activity.
7:18:12 PM: Sort of funny…
7:18:18 PM: And now… as promised… Twilight marketing Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner for the horror tribute.
7:18:49 PM: And the music is quite loud.
7:19:29 PM: Horror tribute begins with Jaws and goes on from there. Too many to name, but I saw Psycho, Poltergeist, The Shining, Scream and many more…
7:21:17 PM: Oh man, Twilight and Edward Scissorhands were just included in a horror montage. It’s like how horror websites discuss Twilight just for the traffic spike. Sad panda.
7:22:12 PM: Okay, so this is supposed to be over in just over an hour left in this show, we have 12 Oscars left to hand out and the In Memorium as well…. Lots to pack in.
7:22:43 PM: Anna Kendrick and Zac Efron out to present the sound awards, I have Avatar and The Hurt Locker splitting this one. Editing to Avatar and mixing to Hurt Locker.
7:23:26 PM: You gotta love it, The Dark Knight gets a tribute in terms of sound… Smart move including what amounts to a Dark Knight featurette narrated by Morgan Freeman. Perfect.
7:24:40 PM: Sound Editing first…
7:24:47 PM:
7:25:22 PM: Okay, missed that one, but I have Locker for mixing. Will it take both?
7:26:29 PM:
7:27:19 PM: A sound sweep for Locker. Good on ’em. I talked to Bigelow about the sound work in this film in my interview with her last year.
7:28:07 PM: Elizabeth Banks is here to talk about the Sci-Tech Awards. I think I’ll do a page break as we move into the final hour (yeah right).
